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Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and a 2016-2017 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from North Carolina State University and has been awarded scholarships from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop, Dickinson House, and the Quest Writer’s Conference. Her poems have been recognized by Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below Contest, the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, and the Academy of American Poets, and appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, Narrative, North American Review, The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, Indiana Review, and elsewhere.
